[Wikimedia-l] Copyright on Xrays

[Sage Ross]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's relevant for Wikipedia, at least. I don't think the projects take a
> view on whether someone is risking their job or following institutional
> policies.

Right. But it's worth mentioning... especially if the projects did
take the view that the images were public domain.

> It's also worth noting that your description is of the process
> for publishing medical data (as a general category) at an academic medical
> institution, the sort that has an IRB.

Yep. But it might actually be relatively easy to get good sets of
medical images by working through those kinds of systems, and that
could work regardless of the copyright status of the images.

-Sage